KHARTOUM, Sudan ¨C Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Executive Director Luke J. Lindberg called for an urgent end to the protracted fighting in Sudan after meeting families forced to flee their homes and struggling to feed their children amid the world¡¯s largest humanitarian crisis.
Concluding his first field mission as Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, Lindberg met Â鶹ÊÓƵ teams on the ground and displaced families escaping the intensifying conflict.
KHARTOUM, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) strongly condemns an aerial attack that hit two contracted trucks carrying Â鶹ÊÓƵ food commodities in South Kordofan in the early hours of Saturday, 3 October 2026.
KHARTOUM, Sudan - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a USD 5 million contribution from the Republic of Korea to provide emergency food assistance to 365,000 people and nutritious school meals to 23,000 children as Sudan faces one of the world¡¯s largest hunger crises.
N¡¯DJAMENA, Chad ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of Japan today signed an agreement for a JPY 200 million contribution, equivalent to USD 1.3 million or XAF 706,000,000 to provide school meals and malnutrition prevention services to communities in food-insecure and crisis-affected areas of Chad.
KHARTOUM, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) strongly condemns the aerial attack that hit two trucks carrying Â鶹ÊÓƵ food assistance outside of Dilling, South Kordofan, on 30 August 2026. The trucks were destined for Kadugli, South Kordofan, and were clearly marked with Â鶹ÊÓƵ banners and flags.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a USD 30 million contribution from the Republic of Korea (ROK) to launch the second phase of the ROK-Â鶹ÊÓƵ REACH initiative (Responding with Emergency Assistance for Conflict-affected Households), providing emergency food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable populations affected by conflict, displacement, and economic shocks.
PORT SUDAN, Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the humanitarian situation in El Obeid ¨C the capital of Sudan¡¯s North Kordofan state - is rapidly deteriorating as displacement towards the city grows, driving up humanitarian food needs. This risks reversing some of the fragile gains achieved over the last several months when Â鶹ÊÓƵ scaled up its food assistance efforts in Sudan to support communities at-risk of famine.
Here are the latest updates on food security and Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s operations in the area and across the country.
This is a summary of what was said by Abdallah Aldawart, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Country Director for Sudan (speaking from Kosti, Sudan, via Zoom) ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
ROME/PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the rapidly deteriorating situation in and around El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan in Sudan, risks unleashing a new wave of violence and mass displacement. This threatens to deepen the country¡¯s already catastrophic hunger crisis.
ROME/PORT SUDAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that the rapidly deteriorating situation in and around El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan in Sudan, risks unleashing a new wave of violence and mass displacement. This threatens to deepen the country¡¯s already catastrophic hunger crisis.
Conflict, displacement and restricted humanitarian access leave more than 825,000 children at risk of death from severe malnutrition in 2026
ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 15 May 2026 ¨C The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNICEF warned today that nearly 19.5 million people ¨C two out of every five people in Sudan - are currently facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) across Sudan, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis.
This is a summary of what was said by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) Director of Emergencies and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing in Geneva today.
NORTH DARFUR, Sudan ¡ª On the eve of three years of devastating war, the Sudanese people are still being left to cope with intense fighting and widespread suffering. Conflict is killing and injuring countless civilians, and leaving millions without access to food, shelter or sanitation, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
N¡¯Djamena ¨C?More than a million Sudanese refugees?in Chad?face immediate and life-threatening cuts to food, water, shelter, protection and health care,?two leading UN humanitarian agencies warned today as the conflict in neighbouring Sudan approaches the three year mark.
KHARTOUM, Sudan ¡ª The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today announced the return of its Sudan Country Office to the capital Khartoum. The announcement was made by Carl Skau, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Deputy Executive Director, following a meeting in Khartoum with Kamil Idris, Prime Minister of Sudan. In attendance, was Abdallah Al Wardat, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s new Country Director in Sudan. The agency¡¯s planned return to the capital comes three years after Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s former premises were looted and destroyed at the beginning of the war in 2023.
PORT SUDAN, Sudan 18 February 2026 ¨C A United Nations (UN) inter?agency convoy led by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), the United Nations Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has reached Dilling and Kadugli, South Kordofan, with life-saving humanitarian supplies to assist over 130,000 people. This marks the first major delivery of assistance to the area in three months.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ is outraged by recent attacks on its trucks, assets and facilities in Sudan. Four incidents over the past 10 days have resulted in humanitarians killed or injured while delivering life-saving food assistance to the most vulnerable civilians.
ROME ¡ª As Sudan marks more than 1,000 days of brutal conflict this month, what has become the world¡¯s largest hunger and displacement crisis shows no signs of abating. This comes as the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is struggling to keep life-saving emergency operations running.
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Ross Smith, to whom quoted text may be attributed?¨C?at a press briefing In Geneva today. Mr Smith participated in the briefing remotely from Rome.
GENEVA/ROME ¨C I would like to share the latest updates from Â鶹ÊÓƵ about circumstances in Sudan¡¯s Darfur and Kordofan regions as well as our operational response.
PORT SUDAN - The UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), together with the Kassala State Government and Minister of Agriculture, celebrated the start of the sorghum harvest at an official event in Wad Al Hilu, Kassala on Tuesday that brought together local Government officials, community leaders, farmers, and Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff.
Conflict and violence are driving extreme hunger in six major crises
ROME ¨C A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which threatens to drive millions more into famine or risk of famine.
TRIPOLI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Libya welcomes a generous contribution of EUR 3 million from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) to support the urgent food needs of Sudanese refugees and Libyan host communities.
FAO, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNICEF warn of the highest levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in El Fasher and Kadugli; improvements seen where fighting has receded and services have resumed
ROME/NEW YORK ¨C The latest analysis of food insecurity and malnutrition in Sudan shows stark contrasts along conflict lines, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNICEF warned today. In areas where violence has subsided ¨C allowing humanitarian access and market recovery ¨C food security has begun to improve. But in conflict-hit locations that have been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance or under siege, famine has now taken hold.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) confirms that the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed us that two of our top leaders in Sudan have been designated as persona non grata, and asked to leave the country within 72 hours, without any explanation.
